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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1912)
THE MORNING OREGONIAN. THURSDAY AUGUST 8, 1912. 16 tourists from Woodstock, Ontario, are LINE NEEDED QUICK at the Cornelius. C E. Knott, a Hood River apple grower. Is registered at the Perkins. Mrs. Helen Druck, of White Salman, HEW BRIDGE LEASE Is registered at the Cornelius. F. F. Smith, a Bend lumberman, is registered at the Bowers. W. J. Burns Says Oriental Dr. F. F. Smith, Jr of Salem, is at the Bowers. Service Is a Requisite. A. P. McQuaid. a Salt Lake mining man, is registered at the Oregon. City Plans to Contract for R. J. E. Smith, a tourist from Derby, England, is registered at the Imperial. Whole Upper Deck of Steel Structure. W. A. Braxeau, a paper manufac turer of Spokane, is at the Multnomah. A. C. Hammond, a San Francisco business man, is registered at the Bow ers. NO TONNAGE PROCURABLE GOlGILin DRAW ORDINANCE IS PREPARED Tays and Means Committee Leaves Question of Streetcar Rentals for Later Settlement Five Per Cent Charge Named. Whether the City of Portland ought i rnt th tinner deck of the new Steel bridge, and then sub-lease to the. Portland Railway. Light & rower com pany for streetcar traffic, or whether it ought to lease from the O.-W. R. & N. Co. only that portion of the upper deck needed for vehicle and pedestrian traffic, allowing the railway company to collect direct from the streetcar company for use of the bridge by streetcars, was the question raised at a meeting of the ways and means com mittee of the City Council, at the City Hall yesterday afternoon. An ordinance was drawn for presen tation to the Council at its special meeting tomorrow morning. This ordi. nance authorizes the Executive Board to enter into an agreement with the railway company to pay for the use of the upper deck at the rate of 6 per cent of the cost of the structure for such a length of time as may be neces sary for Ralph Modjeski. the city"s engineer, and Waddell & Harrington, engineers for the railway company, to check up on the cost of the upper deck. The ordinance provides farther that the city shall keep the bridge in re pair, and carries an emergency clause. SISMM) Deduction la Desired. The members of the ways and means committee objected to paying the rail road S per cent on the cost of the upper deck, unless $18,000. to be col lected from the streetcar company, could be deducted from this. Then the question of a rate for all the bridges of so much per car was taken up, and It was thought best to make It possible for the city to make this rate over the new Steel bridge as well as over the other bridges. Councilman Menefee was in favor of renting the entire upper deck of the bridge from the railroad company, and of sub-leasing to the streetcar company on the basis of so much per ear. Coun cilman Magulre favored renting from the railroad company at 6 per cent, less $18,000. The ordinance as finally rec ommended to the Council provides for the renting of the entire upper deck, and says nothing about the rate the streetcar company is to pay. Old Car Permit Resurrected. A revocable permit to the streetcar company, which had been killed by In definite postponement at a previous meeting of the committee, was resur rected, and placed in the bands of City Attorney Grant for redraft. This gives the streetcar company the right to lay a double track on Adams street from Holladay avenue to the east approach of the new bridge, at Oregon street This work must be done by the street car company within one month. This permit is virtually a franchise, permitting the use of the upper deck of the bridge by the streetcar company at not less than $1500 a month, or $18,000 a year. The city reserves the right to cause the tracks to be re moved, and provides that the street car company must keep the street in repair between tracks, and for one foot on each side. An ordinance was recommended to the Council appropriating $1500, or as much of this as may be necessary, to pay Ralph Modjeski for determining the cost of the upper deck. JoBctlon Proceedings Threatened. W. C. North, president of the North east Side Improvement Club, said yes terday that Injunction proceedings will probably be started to prevent the closing of the old Steel bridge. "We have had to fight the railroad company for two years in order to have a chance to build the Broadway bridge, and I don't like the attitude of the city officials, particularly Mayor Rushlight. In capitulating to the rail way company." said Mr. North. It Is an outrage and a shame. Rushlight Is playing right into the hand of the railroad. He not only wants to rent the bridge from Harrlman at Harrl man's figure, but he wants Harrlman to do the switching. That's what the Hill people don't want. Rushlight is following right in the footsteps of ex Mavor Simon. "Five per cent Is a very small part of what it will cost the city to oper ate the bridge. Charles Swlgert told me two years ago that the railroad bridge, the old Steel bridge, had cost the city $48,000 In operating expenses In the last 80 years. -The old Steel bridge, without the railroad trains on It, Is a better bridge now than the Burnside bridge. Railroad Too Eager, Asserts North. "Of course the railroad is eager to do business with the city now, for it knows that once the city has put its signature to a contract, all the power on earth will not be able to force any concessionb from the railroad for the valuable rights which it practically has stolen. The city gave the O.-W. R. at N. all the land it wanted on the East Side for an approach to the structure on Larrabee street, and the viewers said the city ought to pay $10,000 to the railroad. The railroad wanted more and the Council gouged the taxpayers 114.000 and turned It over to the railroad. Now the rail road cornea back smiling and Is trying to put a bigger piece of trickery over on the city. Everything it gets from the city It wants for nothing and everything the city gets It haa to pay a good round sum for. "The. 60-foot street on the East Side gives hardly room enough to turn around at the East Side approach. The situation there ought to be looked after right away." PERS0NAL MENTION. D. B. Hill, of Maryhlll. is at the Oregon. E. N. Seals, a Spokane banker. Is at the Portland. - J. A. Gallinger. a Pittsburg Jeweler, Is at the Portland. Phil Cohn. a capitalist of Heppner, Is at the Imperial. I. T. Dargan. of Alberta, is regis tered at the Oregon. F. B. Marshall, of San Diego, is reg istered at the Portland. J. Platter, a lumberman of Kelso, Is registered at the Perkins. J. E. Reynolds, a stockman of Ar lington, is at the Imperial. 8. M. Jones, a banker of Charleston, S. G, is at the Multnomah. Oliver S. Brown, of Grants Pass, Is registered at tne aiuitnoman. Dr. and Mrs. Charles A. Barr, of As toria, are registered at the Perkins. Charles Utting and Robert Barrett, D. T. Frothingham. a cordage dealer of Seattle, is registered at the Port land. C S. Woodward, a Los Angeles busi ness man, is registered at the Cor nelius. W. B. Foshay. a business man of Centralia.. Is registered at the Mult nomah. J. Stoddard Johnston, a distiller of Louisville, Ky., is registered at the Portland. R. G. Watson, a hotel proprietor of Terra Haute, Ind., is registered at the Portland. Newton Sklllman. of the Studebaker Company at Detroit, Is registered at The Annex. James Finlayson. a real estate opera tor of Astoria, is registered at the Multnomah. Mrs. Richard Shore Smith and Mrs. Ray Goodrich, of Eugene, are regis tered at the Imperial. mim inn a c 7 rRnArlnl.) The following from Portland. Or., are reg istered at Chicago hotels: Congress, W. C Slattery, G. M. Duncan. La Salle, Aaron Holtz. PONDS WILL BE FILLED CHAIX OF DANGER SPOTS IX WAVERLEIGH HEIGHTS. Third Death Causes Councilman Joy to Investigate and Ordinance Will Be Introduced. Councilman Joy yesterday prepared an ordinance which he will Introduce in Joan W. Smith, 13-year-old Sob of Francis A. Smith, Drowned Tuesday. the City Council requiring the property owners to fill up the chain of ponds of stagnent water in Waverleigh Heights, which are dangerous to the community and where three lives have been lost. The last was John Smith, 13- years of age, who was drowned in the pool Tues day evening, where the water is rrom 10 to 20 feet deep. Mr. Joy yesterday went over tne grounds and investigated the ponds, finding that there Is a chain of pools between Ellsworth street and the Powell Valley road left there when the Waverleigh Heights tract was' im proved. Some efforts have been made in the past to clear these ponds of water. Two other boys were drowned there some time ago. The water is stagnant and poisonous, but the boys In the neighborhood have been float ing rafts there. Appeals were made tq the Health Department, saia & resiaeni vesterdav. but without results. Miss Moore, matron of the Baby Home, said: "These pools are a constant menace to the community, besides being filled with stagnant water. Where little Johny was drowned the water must be more than ten leet aeep. t reacnea the oond as soon as the body was re covered from the pond. He was then dead, but there was no water in nis lungs. These pools should be got rid of at once before other children axe drowned." "I shall have an ordinance ready for the next meeting of the City Council." said Councilman Joy. "requiring the owners of the adjacent property to All up these pools. This may work a hard ship on them, but these dangerous pools of water cannot be left as they are. They are worse and more dangerous than I thought they were." The drowned boy is the oldest of the family of Francis A. Smith, living at 1205 Franklin street. Harold, brother of the drowned boy. 9 year of age, was on the same raft, but managed to get ashore. Mr. Smith thinks ' that the poisonous condition of the water made It impossible to resuscitate the boy. EVANGELICAL UNION NEAR First Step Taken Toward Bringing Religious Bodies Together. ' An agreement for the organic union of the Evangelical Association and the United Evangelical churches of the United States was reached at the meet ing of sub-commissioners at Linwood, Q last week, according to the report received yesterday Dy Kev. J. J. roi lnsr. of the First United Evangelical Church, In Ladd's Addition. Mr. Poling received a letter from M. T. Mays, wno reDresented the Pacific Coast as a mem ber of the sub-commission. Mr. Mays says in his letter that many differences were found in the way of organic union of the' two branches of the Evangelical family, not In points of doctrine, but in methods and govern ment, but an agreement was reached on all these differences. A special committee of six members was appointed to draft in tangible form the details of the agreement and submit the report to the" commission ers of the general conferences of both branches as early as possible. In due time the whole question of organic union will be submitted to the churches In the form of a referendum. Rev. Mr. Poling said that the action taken is the most decisive for union that has been taken so far, and was largelv due to the strong expressions from the West, and especially from the two Oregon conferences, a demand which could not be ignored. It is be lieved that the two branches of the Evangelical family can now be re united within a year. . - . . . . if " I Head of Big Shipping Concern Writes That Business Is at Standstill So Far as General Shipper Is Concerned. W. J. Burns, head of the Portland agency of Balfour. Guthrie A Co., who Is a member of a sub-committee named to "solicit funds for the proposed Oriental steamship line, takes an oppo site view of the facilities available for handling business to the Far East up to January 1, 1913, than T. B. Wilcox, of the Portland Flouring Mill Company, also a member of the soliciting commit tee. Mr. Wilcox was- quoted In yester day's Issue of The Oregonian as favor ing a permanent line rather than one nxrahllshed to operate a few years and advised against haste in the prelimi naries. He said also that tnere is enough tonnage under charter and pro curable to handle the business until the first of the year. Mr. Burns wrote the following yes terday and requested that it be pub lished: "I see that it is given out to tne world this morning that there is no STEAMER INTELLIGENCE. Due to Arrive. Name. From Date. Bear Sn Pedro... In port Breakwater. .. .Coos Bay.... In port Rose City San Pedro Auk. lp Bus H. Elmore. Tillamook. ... Ang. 11 Anvil Bandon Aug. 12 Geo. W. Elder. .San Diego. . . Au. 13 Alliance Eureka .Aug-. 18 Lyra Sallna Crux.. Aug. 13 Beaver San Pedro. .. .Aug. IS Roanoke San Diego... Aug. 18 Nebraskan Sallna Crux.. Aug. 21 Isthmian Sallna Cruz. .Sept. t Nevadan Sallna Crux. .Sept. ' 12 To Depart. Name. For Date. Breakwater.... Coos Bay. ...Aug. 8 Harvard S. F. to L. A. . Aug. 9 Bear Ban Pedro... Aug. 10 Tale . F. toL. A aug. 10 Sue H. ElmoreTlllamook. . . .Aug. 13 Anvil Bandon Aug. 14 Geo, W. Elder. San Diego... .Aug. 14 Alliance Eureka Aug. 1. Rosa City San Pedro... Aug. 15 Lyra ....Sallna Crux.. Aug. 17 Koanoke. -San Diego Aug. 21 Beaver San Pedro Aug. I'O Nebraskan . .Sallna Crux. . Aug. 25 Isthmian Sallna Crux. . Sept. 8 Nevadan Jsa'.lna Crux. .Sept. IS hurry about wanting an Oriental line and that there is enough tonnage under charter and that can be secured to care for the business up to January next. "If this Is so somebody must be keep ing the tonnage carefully under their hat, as today the position is that no freight space is actually offering on the market and no vessels are announced as definitely to go on the berth. Business, therefore. Is at a standstill so far as the general shipper Is concerned, unless by way of the Sound. "What is to be gained by blowing hot and cold on the scheme Is a little diffi cult for the average Intellect to dis cover. It is certainly not? conducive to any general response from the public In the way of assistance. . Perhaps it Is not meant to be." TEXDBRS TO HAVE BURNERS Oil Slay Be Used Instead of Coal on Lighthouse Vessels. Estimates are being gathered by Henry L. Beck, Inspector of the 17th lighthouse district, .covering the cost of changing the tenders Manzanita, Co lumbine and Heather from coal to oil burners. In the event the Bureau of Lighthouses authorizes the change to be made in the next budget bids will be called and they may lower the cost shown In the preliminary report. When the tender Manzanita sailed yesterday, with Mr. Beck aboard, for Puget Sound, she had coal In her bunkers loaded here at $5.40 a ton, which Mr. Beck says is 25 cents a ton cheaper than the fuel can be ob tained for at Astoria, but at Seattle it sells for 3.50 a ton, as it Is Wash ington coal. Last season the difference In price between Portland and Astoria, in favor of the former, is said to have been 50 cents and when the tenders were here they filled their bunkers In preference to loading on the lower harbor. Mr. Beck thinks that oil will be found as cheap as coal even at such prices, while the employment of fewer firemen, less loss of time In getting fuel aboard and no dirt, are advantages. ROSS ISLAND IX LIMELIGHT Patrol Will Clear Out Objectionable Rendezvous. Objectionable practices alleged to take place on Ross Island frequently at night will be checked as Harbormaster Speier has arranged for a patrol of the district at certain hours and not only will the launch make the rounds, but officers will land on the island and make a tour to order undesirable char acters to vacate. It haa been suggested that the island either be cleared or the owner take steps to prosecute trespassers, as some of the carousals have aroused persons, who cruise In motorboat In the vicinity or pass there on the way to the Oaks and points on the upper river. It is also said to be largely a pitfall for girls whs accept invitations to go boating and are taken there unsuspect ingly. Boats have been reported there after midnight and boatmen say that often craft are held there late and then the occupants row to the East Side and take a car home, leaving the boat on the beach. COLUMBIA'S SHAFT IS GON'E "Well-Known Steamer's Last Me mento Sold to Mine. With the shipment of an old shaft taken from the lllfated steamer Co lumbia 20 years ago, to Denver, Colo., where It will be used in a mine as a part of the hoisting gear, and the destruction of dozens of old bamboo cages in which - birds and wild ani mals of the Orient found their way to Portland several years ago, Ainsworth dook is at last clear of Junk and re fuse. Chief Engineer Jackson, of the steamer Bear, who superintended the removal of the shaft from the Co lumbia, says it weighs about 16 tons. It was sold as Junk and the purchasers said the only opening for a resale was among mine corporations. The cages were brought here during the days of the "Indra" steamers, which operated under charter to the Portland & Astatic, when the steamship problem was solved by the O. R. & K. officials and had no relation to the Pacific Mail. Parrots, canaries, monkeys, baboons, tigers and others of the Oriental jungles were transported In the cages and - on being sold to bird and animal dealers the bamboo recetacles were piled on II g" " TT ELIEVE me, some . : "There is only one kind of J I horses in. that string '' ' Trophies that' interests me," J JpJllJf . JLJ of ours," murmured said the Kink, with emphasis, ' jSpf the Kink, as the Royal colors K , . . WmM paradedbeforethe Grand Stand. and toose are Turkish Tro- , fc "And some -classy Trophies ytites" f0 WBS " have, been hung up in. each . '.. . , . . WmA event," remarked the Royal . ; "All;, others, are scratched, , the dock. But as they had no market value they were consigned to the flames. WILLAMETTE'S MATE JAILED Salt Was Real Sassy to "Strangler Smith" and Faces Trouble. "Strangler Smith." of the harbor patrol force, who 1. entered on the municipal payroll as Patrolman Bakcsy, got a strangle hold on Lars Peterson, first mate of the McCormick steamer Willamette, late Tuesday because the mate declined to swing a llfenet beneath the gangway, scouted at the idea that harbor regulations could be enforced here and otherwise sought to belittle the dignity of the harbor patrol. He thought better of it after spending a few hours in Jail and came near missing his ship, but was balled out In time to Join her for the trip to Hoqulam. Harbormaster Speier says that Peter son was reported to him before by Bakcsy for having failed to rig a net when passengers were leaving the ves sel late, at night, but the matter was overlooked, as it was the first offense. Peterson will be prosecuted when the Willamette returns here. If he retains the berth of mate, and Harbormaster Speier says all, others who feel that it Is their privilege to curse officers on duty under him will also get a chance to serve in -a shore brig. OLD DOCK BEIVG ; REBUILT No Change . Made to Show Oregon Electric Win Use Site. Talk that the Oregon Electric inter ests were the purchasers of property on the ' west shore of the . Willamette, between' Taylor and Salmon streets, and Intended to use It as a transfer dock., has simmered as the result of the dock property having, been overhauled and while the decking and supports have been renewed, no steps were taken to fit it for railroad purposes.. In a few days the last of the new decking and underpinning will be In place ' on the Taylor-street side and the slip rebuilt there for steamers of the Yellow Stack Line. It was thought by some that the dock property might be used in connection with the plan to transfer freight from the Oregon Elec tric to the proposed East Side yards of the Hill system, but such a move Is viewed- as Impracticable with the present construction features of the dock. Marine Notes. Captain L. O. Hosford has resumed charge of the steamer Jessie Harklns, vice Captain ' Percy Davis. Collections et the Custom-House for July reached S79,S0.45, which Is 12, 271. 36 in excess of the returns for July, 1911. . First of the- lumber to be loaded by the steamer Hornet, which arrived yes terday from San Francisco, will be at the plant of -the West Oregon Lumber Company. .Word has ' been received that the Olson & Mahony steamer Carlos haa hMi ordered to drvdock at San Fran cisco for minor repairs. To undergo an extensive overnaui lng the steamer G. K. Wentworth, of the Hosford fleet, has been hauled out at the yards of the Portland Ship building Company, and all towing is being handlled by the steamer Weown. Tramps sleeping under the approach to Ainsworth dock were responsible for a blaze discovered there yesterday morning that might have resulted seri ously had not one- of the dock force, arriving early, got quick action with a hose. Owing to the need for more adjust ment of the lift draw of the new Har rlman bridge the steamer T. J. Potter was . held at Ainsworth dock Tuesday evening and yesterday the steamer Breakwater was prevented for over an hour In gaining the upper harbor. Tourists are patronizing the special excursions to Oregon, City being con- -. KV v.iinw Ktnrk Line, with UUVlfU "J ..... the steamer Pomona, as she is making three round trips daily ana ncnets r lnterchangable with the trolley sysT tern. ... To remove a wire rope entangled in the propeller of the steamer Raymond, which was picked up when she was on the way to the O. W. P. dock Tues day, the vessel will be lifted on dry dock, she being held here pending a telegram from her owners. Sudden & rn.-J..l.... a finn TTrAtlClgCO. The LanauuiBBH, vm . . vessel . will . then proceed to Wlllapa Harbor to toaa ior on jt When a " horse owner was quoted a rate a few days ago for shipping sev eral head to a point down the river and was told that a Shetland pony might be accepted as a yearling and a rate of 1.50 madeinatead of 2, he sought an even greater reduction on an opposition line, wtth the result that the Shetland was declared a horse under the tariff and he was compelled to pay full toU. Movements of Vessels. PORTLAND, Aug. 7. Arrived Steamer Hornet, from San franclaco; "".aJJe,J"S Harbor, from San Francisco. Balled Steam ir Roanoke, for San Dleso and way porta; gaaollne .cnooner Anvil, for Bandon and WA.to?la"" Auk. 7. Sailed at 6 A. St.. steamer Willamette, tor Grays Harbor; at :30 A. M., steamer Qutnault, for ban Fran cisco. Arrived at 6 and left up at 6:40 A. M steamer Hornet, from San Francisco. Sailed at 7 A. M.. schooner Klnr Cyrus, for San Pedro; at 7:30 A M.. British ship Dun syre. for Sydney; at 10:80 A. M.. steamer Elmore, for Tillamook. Arrived at 12 noon .nil Vuilled at 2 P. M.. barkentlne Coronado. n-om""n pVaSccoTfor Seattle. Arrived at I and IVi up at 4:30 P. M., steamer Grays Harbor, from San Francisco. . San Francisco. Aug-. 7. Sailed at 6 A M.. steamer Northland, for Portland. Arrived at A M steamer Beaver, from Portland. Killed a'" a P M-. steamer Daisy, for Port land. Arrived at 3 P. M.. steamer Rose City. IrHono"u.PAu" S.6.!ld6chooner Eric, for Columbia River. - San Francisco. Auv 6. failed at 10 P. M steamer Klamath, for Portland. Seattle. Aus. 7. Arrived Steamers j St. Helens from Nome: Bnckman. Mlssourlan, Arcyll from San Francisco; Dolphin, from sicaiVay; Prince Rupert, from Prince Ru oerf Cordova, from Southwestern Alaska; Alameda, from Tacoma. Sailed Steamers Antllochus. for Liverpool, via Orient: Uma tilla, for San Francisco; Cordova, for Ta- Csan Francisco. Aug. 7. Arrived Steamers Edith, Montara, from Seattle; Jim Butler, from Everett: City of Para, from Balboa: Daisy Gadsy, Mayfalr. from Wlllapa; Bea ver, from Portland: Tiverton, from Gamble: A. M. Simpson, from Coos Bay; Speedwell (new), from Coos Bay; bark R. P. Rlthet. from Honolulu; schooners Coqullle, from Sluslaw; Bertie, Minor, from Bandon. San Pedro, Aug. 6. Sailed Steamer Geo. W. Elder, for San Diego. . Columbia River Bar Report. Condition at the mouth of the river at 8 P. M., cloudy; wind, northwest, 14 miles; sea, smooth. . Tides. at Astoria Thursday High. " Low. 9:24 A. M: S.5 feet!2:4 A. M 0.8 foot 8:31 P. M 8.5 feetl 1:51 P. M 4.3 feet Huckleberry Fields Attract. GOLDENDALE. Wash., Aug. 7. 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